Chapter four hundred and twentieth eight beasts are not as good as beasts
Having known the old beggar for so long, Tang Ning already understood why he was so unpopular in Lingzhou and was beaten up every once in a while.
Selling incomplete martial arts secrets, peddling pornographic books, cheating children with lollipops, consecrating women who have lost their feet...
This kind of bitch can make even the calm old Zheng arouse a lot of anger. If he couldn't beat him, he would have been chopped into eight pieces long ago.
The words "old people don't cultivate" and "old people are disrespectful" are just talking about this kind of people. They don't look like top masters at all. They are not even as good as normal people. The more they live, the less serious they become. They only behave in front of Xiao Xiao.
Deliberately pretending to be a "charity teacher".
Old Zheng probably didn't want to see the old beggar, or he was worried that one day he wouldn't be able to control himself and would humiliate himself, so he took the initiative to take on the role of Tang Ning's bodyguard.
November was coming soon, so Tangning deliberately reported to the Ministry of War two days in advance.
The Ministry of War is equivalent to the Ministry of National Defense in later generations. It is in charge of the selection and promotion of military attaches, military status, weapons, military orders, etc. It does not involve military power itself. Even the Minister of War, Lu Ding, is 100% a civilian official.
Even so, the position of Minister of the Ministry of War cannot be held by just any civil servant. The Lu family is a family of military generals. Military generals must not only be brave, but also strategic. Among the generals in the capital, no one is single-minded.
A reckless man who knows how to charge into battle.
When Lu Ding was young, he was already a famous general in the Chen Kingdom. He once served as the general of the Sixteenth Guards, and now serves as the Minister of War. Lu Teng can sit in the position of Zuo Yu Captain at a young age, and his future is unlimited. In the capital,
Among all the generals, the Lu family is considered to be the best.
The Xiao family was once glorious, but now only Xiao Jue is left, and it can no longer be compared with the Lu family.
He walked into the yamen of the Ministry of War and explained his purpose. The man in charge at the door hurried in to report.
Although the Ministry of War can be regarded as a civilian yamen, many officials of the Ministry of War, including the Minister of War, have military backgrounds, and the layout of the yamen of the Ministry of War is also different from other yamen.
Walking into the front yard, you can see stone locks, stone poles, stone mills and other things placed in a corner of the yard.
Tang Ning glanced around and heard the sound of footsteps in her ears. The acquaintance accompanied a man walking out of a government office.
The man who came out bowed his hand to him and said, "Master Tang, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
This man was about thirty years old, with a calm voice, strong steps, and a distinctive fierce aura about him, which was completely different from the impression given by an official from the Ministry of Household Rites and the Punishment Department.
Tangning cupped her fists and asked in return, "Who is this sir?"
The palm guard stepped forward and introduced: "This is Minister Nie."
The person who greeted him was Nie Qian, the left minister of the Ministry of War. Before Tang Ning left the capital for Chu State, Emperor Chen had promoted him to the rank of doctor of the Ministry of Rites. This was an official position of the fifth rank. Now that he had left the Ministry of Rites and served in the Ministry of War, his official rank was in principle the same.
It will not be lower than the fifth grade.
Nie Shilang welcomed him into a duty room somewhere and said: "Master Shangshu has been summoned to the palace by your Majesty. However, your Excellency has informed you a few days ago that if Master Tang comes, you will be temporarily appointed as a doctor in the Ministry of War.
There were two doctors. Hu Langzhong was ordered to leave the capital a month ago to patrol military camps in various states. This is Wu Langzhong..."
He pointed to a person in the room on duty and introduced him to Tang Ning. This Wu Langzhong did not have the temperament of someone who came from a military camp. He was obviously a civil servant.
He cupped his hands towards Tang Ning, but his eyes were wary as he said, "I have admired Mr. Tang for a long time..."
When they met for the first time, Mr. Wu seemed a little afraid of him. Tang Ning didn't show too much enthusiasm and just held her hand in return.
After arranging everything for him, Mr. Nie looked at him and said, "I still have some things to do, so I'm going to leave first. If you need anything, please come to me at any time."
Tang Ning heard Xiao Jue say that the Ministry of War seemed to be busy with the Sixteenth Guards Competition held every four years recently, and was not very free. She nodded and said, "Shilang Nie, go and get busy."
Nie Qian walked out of the Ministry of War office and saw a man standing in the courtyard, looking at the stone lock in the corner in trance.
From just now, he noticed this person. He had a very familiar temperament on him. Although he was just standing there casually at the moment, he felt like a sharp knife...
He had only seen this kind of temperament in the military.
What surprised him even more was that the people on the opposite side put more pressure on him than the General of the Sixteenth Guards.
Nie Qian hesitated for a moment and asked, "I wonder which general this brother used to serve?"
He could be sure that this person must have come from a military background. With such a fierce momentum, he was most likely from a division that had fought hundreds of battles.
Lao Zheng looked back at him, shook his head and said: "You must have mistaken the person, I will kill the pig..."
Nie Qian's eyes stayed on him for a long time before he shook his head, thinking that this might be his illusion. He raised his feet and was about to step down the steps when his steps suddenly stopped. He lowered his head to look at the ground and slowly fell down.
Go down the steps gently...
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The first day at the Ministry of War was extremely leisurely. There was nothing left for him to do. Tang Ning only went there at noon and sat there for less than an hour before leaving.
After the gong sounded, Tang Ning walked out of the military headquarters and found that he was the only one coming out.
He stood at the door and waited for a while. When Lao Zheng came back from buying meat, no one from the Ministry of War released him to the office.
Among the four yamen he had ever worked in, the overtime work of the Ministry of War was the worst. It was hard to tell that Lu Shangshu, who was always so amiable, was not polite to his subordinates at all. He didn't even dare to come out of the duty room for a quarter of an hour after leaving the yamen.
Lao Zheng bought a pound of pork belly and planned to go back and chop it into stuffing to make dumplings in the evening. Not long after Tangning returned home, she saw Princess Anyang walking in from outside.
"Is the princess here to see the princess?" Tangning looked at her and said, "The princess and Xiaoyi went out and may not come back for a while."
Zhao Man and Xiao Ru Xiaoyi have now become real sisters, so close that no one will gossip even if she often runs here.
"No, I'm here to see Xiao Jue." Princess Anyang looked around and said, "Isn't he here?"
Tangning shook her head and said, "I just came back from the Yamen and didn't see him."
Princess Anyang ran into the room and searched in disbelief. After finding nothing, she left unwillingly.
Tangning stood up and said, "Come out, she's gone."
Xiao Jue climbed out of the tank in the corner, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said somewhat depressedly: "I finally left..."
Tangning looked at him and asked, "Do you owe her money?"
Xiao Jue shook his head and said, "She wants to introduce the girl to me."
Tangning looked at him and asked, "Isn't this bad? Don't you always want to marry a wife and start a family?"
"You don't know." Xiao Jue waved his hand and said, "She introduced Lu Teng's sister."
Tangning thought for a while and asked, "Lu Teng's sister...is ugly?"
From the looks of Lu Teng and Lu Shangshu, we can see that the Lu family's genes are pretty good, and there is no reason why Lu Teng's sister should not be good-looking.
Xiao Jue said: "It's not bad, it looks pretty."
Tangning looked at him and asked, "Then you still don't want to?"
Judging from his reaction just now, someone who didn't know it thought that Anyang County was going to introduce Lu Teng to him.
"You can think so." Tangning looked at him and said, "Don't you dislike Lu Teng? If you marry his sister, you will become his brother-in-law and you will be able to suppress him from now on."
"Forget it." Xiao Jue shook his head and said, "In order to take advantage of his "brother-in-law" and sacrifice my happiness for the rest of my life, I am not that stupid. I, Xiao Jue, will die and never marry.
I won’t marry her, Lu Ya!”
Tangning thought for a while and said, "I think you and Princess Anyang are a good match. Why don't you consider her?"
"She?" Xiao Jue waved his hand and said without any hesitation: "I have always regarded her as my sister. Will you marry your sister?"
"You are not related by blood."
"That won't work either." Xiao Jue shook his head and said, "I regard her as my sister in my heart. If I marry her, wouldn't I become a beast? No, even worse than a beast!"
